Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.
Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.
Truth can hurt so very much.
It's a very weird cultural perception that if you're fat you're dumb, that you're lazy or a loser. Clearly, those are the preconditions for fatness. You're a failure, because only a lazy person, only a dumb person, would allow themselves to get into this situation. It's appalling that this is the mindset. People generally treat fat people like we don't know anything about anything. It's incredibly demeaning. And incredibly frustrating.
Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem andor a social problem that must be solved. "Morbid obesity" is in many ways saying we are the walking dead. Or walking to our death. And that is no way to live, with that sort of moniker hanging over your head at all times. I think it forces fat people to internalize a lot of unnecessary self-loathing.
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
The hardest part is keeping yourself even keel across the board. You have to keep a balance until you get to Sunday and understand what goes with the week.
Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.
You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform